Today’s Top 5 From Purdue University

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Courageous Parker sisters were ‘Boilermakers in every sense’

By naming residence halls after alumnae Frieda and Winifred Parker, Purdue celebrates their successful campaign to integrate student housing.

Media contact: Tim Doty, doty2@purdue.edu

What’s a life worth? Presidential Lecture Series guest to discuss his role leading 9/11 victims fund, others spawned by tragedies

Washington, D.C., attorney Kenneth R. Feinberg, who time and again has been assigned the unimaginable task of determining the value of a lost life, will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels as part of Presidential Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse.

Media contact: Matthew Oates, oatesw@purdue.edu

Introducing Clinic Immersives by Purdue University Global: ‘A game changer’ for health care students and practitioners

Clinic Immersives by Purdue Global is cutting-edge clinical skills training technology that can be practiced anywhere, anytime by health care students and practitioners with real-time feedback.

Media contact: Tom Schott, tschott@purdue.edu

Purdue researchers develop cancer immunotherapy treatment

Researchers in Purdue’s College of Pharmacy are further developing a potential immunotherapy treatment for cancer, one focused on the mutation of an enzyme.

Media contact: Steve Martin, sgmartin@prf.org

Purdue’s Data Mine is making data science accessible for all

Purdue’s The Data Mine program aims to expand and support underrepresented students in data fields.

Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu

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